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H. W. Brands

H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 books, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class.

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A woman in a white robe, the symbol of 'Manifest Destiny,' floating over the prairie as Native Americans and bison run in front of her, followed by signs of western expansion.

Land symbolized opportunity to generations of Americans, starting with colonists.